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From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Initializing from context passing
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:17:59 +0100
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On 23/04/2011 23:35, Lew wrote:
> On 04/23/2011 03:34 PM, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>> Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
>>> And do use interface types rather than implementations, unless you
>>> specifically rely on a detail of the implementation (which is often a
>>> bad sign). That is, make it a List<T>, not an ArrayList<T>.
>>
>> I would appreciate a pointer to an example.
>> Everything I have come across in the Android examples I have seen uses
>> ArrayAdapter
>
> They said to use 'List' instead of 'ArrayList', not instead of
> 'ArrayAdapter'!
>
> It makes absolutely no sense, and would not compile, to use 'List' in
> lieu of 'ArrayAdapter', n'est-ce pas?
>

True, my mistake.
But having said that, all the examples I have seen use ArrayList and not 
List

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Dirk

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